Like many of you, I try Trials of the Nine periodically. I'm decent at PvP, but when it comes to Trials, my efficiency goes down to approximately .5 versus 1.5+ in normal every day crucible. My ELO rating in Countdown is #238,847 Survival is better at #119,918. Not super great, but solid I think... Then comes Trials of the Nine, and I cannot even come out of cover before I am killed by people I cannot even see. My ELO rating in Trials drops inexcusably down to #1,857,169. I like to browse the companion app on my phone for teams to compete with during Trials if I do not have clan mates to play with. I understand that will hurt my rating in Trials since I am playing people that play together regularly. This week, I played with people I play with on a normal basis. That being said, this week was a joke. Me and my friends played 10 or more games one night, and lost all but the last one 6-0. And we barely got more than 5 total kills. The odds of me going from a decent PvP player to complete trash is unlikely. We even switched up and played a competitive match and did just fine. Here lies the problem. Bungie does nothing to fix the issue. People are using the Bungie companion app to advertise paid carries for $30-$40 guaranteed flawless. These people are network manipulating to make the game unplayable for their opponents. It even got so bad that I messaged people just watching the intros for Trials to see how much they charged for carries. Mid match, they responded as they destroyed us 6-0. These guys have 400+ wins in Trials, and I bet 90% of them come from network manipulation. It makes the game mode unplayable and only benefits people that are using it as a second business. Bungie needs to do something to correct this. It is insulting to those of us that play consistently and are relegated to not being competitive in Trials because in any given run you are going to run into 50%-75% of teams that are using some sort of manipulation. It wouldn't be hard to cut this down. Bungie can use their own app to track people that are paid to carry or recover and ban the IP of the accounts doing this. I say ban the people manipulating the network and ban the accounts paying to get carried. I know this seems drastic, but people are doing this with impunity. It needs to be fixed and it needs to be fixed before people just stop playing because they are being punished for not cheating. Let me know what you guys think. I know this was a long post and a bit of a rant, but Trials is the most unplayable portion of the game, and it needs to get fixed before people stop playing even faster than they are now.